Psalms 74 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
Gender
Male
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Children AdamEve

Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Psalms 74 (WEB)

A contemplation by Asaph.

1God, why have you rejected us forever?

Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,

which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance:

Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,

all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.

They have set up their standards as signs.

5They behaved like men wielding axes,

cutting through a thicket of trees.

6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.

They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”

They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

9We see no miraculous signs.

There is no longer any prophet,

neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?

Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?

Take it from your chest and consume them!

12Yet God is my King of old,

working salvation throughout the earth.

13You divided the sea by your strength.

You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.

You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

15You opened up spring and stream.

You dried up mighty rivers.

16The day is yours, the night is also yours.

You have prepared the light and the sun.

17You have set all the boundaries of the earth.

You have made summer and winter.

18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.

Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.

Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

20Honor your covenant,

for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.

Let the poor and needy praise your name.

22Arise, God! Plead your own cause.

Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.

The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

God